in reply to How to process variable length fields in delimited file.
If the first 10 fields are of fixed length, I'd use unpack on that part. Using A10 for a 10 characted wide field will strip the trailing spaces. Work on from there.
my ($ssn, $empno, $empname, ...) = unpack "A10 A20 A12 ...", $buffer;
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